Mendoza1

/mɛnˈdəʊzə; Spanish menˈdoθa/

noun

1.

a city in W central Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierra de los Paramillos: largely destroyed by an earthquake in 1861; commercial centre of an intensively cultivated irrigated region; University of Cuyo (1939). Pop: 1 072 000 (2005 est)